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Activity Number: 432
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract - #305751
Title: Optimal Design of the Sensor Network Under Communication and Energy Budget Constraints
Author(s): Zhengyuan Zhu*+ and Jun Yang and Yi Zhang and Xuanlong Nguyen
Companies: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University and Duke University and Duke University
Address: CB# 3260, Dept. of Statistics and OR, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599,
Keywords: D-optimal design ; semi definite programming ; wireless sensor network
Abstract:

In this paper we study the design of a wireless sensor network in a spatial temporal domain for optimal parameter estimation. We consider the setting where we are given a set of potential sensor locations, a parametric model for the process being monitored, a cost constraint, and a communication protocol, and our objective is to design a sensor network to deploy at a subset of these locations, and use the data collected from the network to estimate parameters of the underlying process. We formulate the problem as maximizing a D-optimal design criterion for parameter estimation under communication and cost constraints. Both linear and nonlinear models are considered, and we provide a general framework to include a variety of practical cost consideration in the constraints. Algorithms based on generalized semi-definite programming are developed to find the optimal design under constraints.


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